Joshua Chamberlain
Videos
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was an American college professor and politician from Maine who volunteered during the American Civil War to join the Union Army. He became a highly respected and decorated
Chamberlain in the 1860s
Little Round Top, western slope, photographed by Timothy H. O'Sullivan (1863)
Capt. Ellis Spear, Chamberlain's "right-hand man" on Little Round Top
Confederate General John B. Gordon was assigned the task to surrender all arms to Gen. Chamberlain.
Galusha Pennypacker
Videos
Uriah Galusha Pennypacker was a Union general during the American Civil War. He may be the youngest person to hold the rank of brigadier general in the US Army and remains the only general too young t
Joshua Chamberlain
…the last Civil War veteran to die as a result of wounds from the war and considered by some the last casualty of the war; however, Brigadier General Galusha Pennypacker died in 1916 of his Civil War wounds. Chamberlain's home, located across Maine Street from the Bowdoin College campus, is now the Joshua L. Chamberlain…
Lithograph of Galusha Pennypacker
General Galusha Pennypacker Memorial, Logan Square, Philadelphia, Charles Grafly and Albert Laessle, sculptors.
Pennypacker's tombstone in Philadelphia National Cemetery